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List Poems

List Poems. Cultural Appearances. Grocery lists Christmas lists (Santa’s “Naughty & Nice” list) Homework list (often written down in a student planner) Some song lyrics… David Letterman’s “Top 10” lists. Definition.

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List Poems

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  1. List Poems

  2. Cultural Appearances • Grocery lists • Christmas lists (Santa’s “Naughty & Nice” list) • Homework list (often written down in a student planner) • Some song lyrics… • David Letterman’s “Top 10” lists

  3. Definition • List Poem: A type of verse that uses repetition and variation in the creation of a list or inventory of things, objects, desires, plans or memories. List poems often feature surprises or revelations (an idea revealed to the subject for the first time) at the end of them.

  4. Appearances • Lists of family lineage of the Bible • Lists of Trojan War heroes in Homer’s The Iliad • Over 250 years ago, Christopher Smart wrote a list poem about what his cat Jeoffry did each morning

  5. “When I Count to Three” by Lauri Bohanan When I count to three, the toys better be picked up. When I count to three, the quarter will disappear from my fist. When I count to three, your butt better be in the car. When I count to three, I'll have calmed down. When I count to three, the swats will end. When I count to three, the world will explode. When I count to three, the pain will be gone.

  6. “Driving at Dawn” by Van K. Brock A dead rabbit by the roadside, Sunlight turning his ears to rose petals. A new electric fence, Its five barbed wires tight As a steel-stringed banjo. The feet of a fat dove On a high black line Throbbing to the hum Of a thousand waterfalls. A flock of egrets in a field of cows. Three Great Blue Herons like hunchbacked pelicans in a watering pond. The red leaves of a bush Burning inside me. A swamp holding its breath.

  7. “10 Things I Do Every Day” by Ted Berrigan wake up smoke potsee the cat love my wife think of Frank eat lunch make noisessing songs go out dig the streets go home for dinner read the Post make pee-pee two kids grin read bookssee my friendsget pissed-offhave a Pepsi disappear

  8. “Home Is Where” Home is the place where you drop your backpack and your stories and your dirty clothes and your troubles and your used towels and just be yourself (But my mom always makes you put away The backpack, clothes, and towels. At least my mom does.)

  9. Jim Carroll – “People Who Died” Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years oldFell from the roof on East Two-nineCathy was 11 when she pulled the plugOn 26 reds and a bottle of wineBobby got leukemia, 14 years oldHe looked like 65 when he diedHe was a friend of mineThose are people who died, diedThey were all my friends, and they died

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